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SUSPENDER BUCKLE No. 317,873. Patented'May 12, 1885.

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' NITED STATES PATENT FFICEQ SUSPENDER-BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,873, dated May 12, 1.885.

Application filed October 23, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK B. SPooNER, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Suspender-Buckle, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to facilitate detaching the buckle of a suspender from the ring on the suspender-end.

The invention consists in the combination, with a plate having lugs on its back, of a latchplate pivoted on the said plate and resting on the lugs.

The invention also consists in parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be fully set forth hereinafter.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a face view of my improved suspender-buckle. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view on line as x of Fig. 2.

The buckle plate A is provided with a downwardly-projecting tongue, B, provided on the back with two flanges, 0, between which a latch-plate, D, is pivoted, which is acted upon by a spring, E, pressing the lower free end of the said latch-plate against two lugs, F, projecting from the inner side of the tongue, at the lower end of the same, and bent toward each other, as shown in section, Fig. 3. The free edges of the lugs F are beveled toward the lower end of the tongue B and their upper ends from shoulders G.

An eye or ring, H, of the usual construction,

- is held-on the suspenderend J. To hold the piece of the ring has passed the shoulders G, when the latch-plate snaps against the lugs F of the tongue B, and presses the top crosspiece of the ring against the back ofthe tongue and holds it on the shoulders G.

If the ring is to be detached from the buckle, the thumb is placed on the plate D, back of the pocket formed by the flanges O, and the same pressed in the direction ofthe arrow a, whereby the said latch-plate D is pressed from the tongue B and the ring drops.

The lugs F are bent toward each other to prevent passing one shank or side piece of the ring up between them.

The lugs F may be provided on the front as well as on the back of the plate K, and the above-described buckle can be used on harness as well as suspenders.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is v 1. In a suspender-buckle, the combination, with the plate A, having a tongue, B, provided on its back with flanges O, in which a latch-plate, D, is pivoted,of thelugs F, proj ecting from the back of the tongue B, against which lugs the free end of the latch rests, and of the spring E, for restingon the said latch, substantially as described.

2. In a suspender-buckle, the combination, with a plate provided with devices, substantially as described, for holding a suspender band or strap, and having lugs formed with shoulders on the back surface to receive the hook or ring of a cast-off, of a latch pivoted to the plate and resting against the said lugs, substantially as herein shown and described.

FREDERICK B. SPOONER.

Witnesses:

OSCAR F. GUNZ, EDGAR TATE. 

